How Frisco ISD Is Dealing With Growing Pains

Frisco ISD has added more than 700 students since Labor Day, 250 of those since the holiday break. (Published Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019)

Frisco Independent School District enrolled its 60,000th student this year, and the district isn't finished growing.

"We like to think it's because we have a good product," Deputy Superintendent Todd Fouche said.

Fouche said Frisco ISD has been the fastest growing school district in the state for years. It's the fourth-largest school district in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and still growing, thanks in part to business growth in the city. To keep up with the pace, the district has built nearly 70 schools since 1993.

"With community support, we've gone to the voters and said, 'We have more students, and we have more students, and can we build more schools,'" Fouche said. "This is our plan and that's kind of how we've done it."

The Frisco Independent School District is the fastest-growing district in Texas. The Dallas Morning News reporter Nannette Light discusses what's behind the boom.

(Published Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019)

Voters passed a bond measure in 2014 that will fund a new high school on the Frisco/McKinney border. The district will break ground in late spring/early summer. The school district uses a "small school" model for high schools, capping enrollment at 2,100.

"They're still fairly large high schools, but compared to other districts around us, our high schools are typically smaller," Fouche said. "Because we want students to be engaged in as many opportunities as they can be."

"That's a great question," Fouche said. "If you look at the work the city's doing and the work that the school district is doing to make this area feel like what people think it's gonna feel like, I think that helps."

Voters in the Frisco Independent School District approved two measures on Election Day that will provide a major influx of cash for what has been consistently the fastest-growing school district in Texas over the past several years.